On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Ask Me wrote:

On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:41:38 -0600, "William O'Hara"
wrote:

I would like to point out as a former Assistant RACES Officer for a local
community in Massachusetts, that Mr. Romney is absolutely correct.

The current EMA-ARRL structure co-exists with the STATE RACES Officer and
going nothing.

ARES has nets that do NOTHING. RACES does nothing. 85% of the
communities south of Boston do not have any active participation in the
RACES drills.

This seems to be true, there is an ARES net near me that does not do
any training but encourages parcipitants to do conversation after
everyone has checked in. In the course Emergency Communication I we
are discouraged from doing conversation during emergency communication
and encouraged to be brief and accurate with our communication.


John Ragland - KE6CQK

Your all correct. MARS is doing nothing either except checkin nets
every other Saturday where no training is done. After 70 years
of AARS/MARS continuous service I droped out of it last year.
Only few people left on local nets, and mostly no training, just
idle conversation takes place.
Joe/KH6jF (formerly ABM6JF with MARS)